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Situated Boundary Spanning: An Empirical Investigation of Requirements Engineering Practices in Product Family Development

Situated Boundary Spanning: An Empirical Investigation of Requirements Engineering Practices in... Situated Boundary Spanning: An Empirical Investigation of Requirements Engineering Practices in Product Family Development RADHIKA JAIN, Baruch College LAN CAO, Old Dominion University KANNAN MOHAN, Baruch College BALASUBRAMANIAM RAMESH, Georgia State University Requirements Engineering (RE) faces considerable challenges that are often related to boundaries between various stakeholders involved in the software development process. These challenges may be addressed by boundary spanning practices. We examine how boundary spanning can be adapted to address RE challenges in Product Family Development (PFD), a context that involves complex RE. We study two different development approaches, namely, conventional and agile PFD, because these present considerably different challenges. Our findings from a multisite case study present boundary spanning as a solution to improve the quality of RE processes and highlight interesting differences in how boundary spanner roles and boundary objects are adapted in conventional and agile PFD. Categories and Subject Descriptors: K.6.3 [Software Management]: Software Process General Terms: Design, Management, Human Factors Additional Key Words and Phrases: Boundary spanning, requirements engineering, product family development, agile development ACM Reference Format: Radhika Jain, Lan Cao, Kannan Mohan, and Balasubramaniam Ramesh. 2014. Situated boundary spanning: An empirical investigation of requirements engineering practices in product family development. ACM http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) Association for Computing Machinery

Situated Boundary Spanning: An Empirical Investigation of Requirements Engineering Practices in Product Family Development

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Situated Boundary Spanning: An Empirical Investigation of Requirements Engineering Practices in Product Family Development RADHIKA JAIN, Baruch College LAN CAO, Old Dominion University KANNAN MOHAN, Baruch College BALASUBRAMANIAM RAMESH, Georgia State University Requirements Engineering (RE) faces considerable challenges that are often related to boundaries between various stakeholders involved in the software development process. These challenges may be addressed by boundary spanning practices. We examine how boundary spanning can be adapted to address RE challenges in Product Family Development (PFD), a context that involves complex RE. We study two different development approaches, namely, conventional and agile PFD, because these present considerably different challenges. Our findings from a multisite case study present boundary spanning as a solution to improve the quality of RE processes and highlight interesting differences in how boundary spanner roles and boundary objects are adapted in conventional and agile PFD. Categories and Subject Descriptors: K.6.3 [Software Management]: Software Process General Terms: Design, Management, Human Factors Additional Key Words and Phrases: Boundary spanning, requirements engineering, product family development, agile development ACM Reference Format: Radhika Jain, Lan Cao, Kannan Mohan, and Balasubramaniam Ramesh. 2014. Situated boundary spanning: An empirical investigation of requirements engineering practices in product family development. ACM

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ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Dec 12, 2014

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